Lyric: _shortage_ = "short circuit"

[Wilson Gray]

I can't stay on your life support
There's a _shortage_ in the switch
in
"Just Like A Pill"
written by Aleicia Beth "P!nk" Moore and Dallas Austin


"Shortage" in place of "short circuit" strikes me as rare. I know it
only because it was used down home, in NE TX. OTOH, P!nk is from
Doylestown, in SE *PA*. So, as usual,

Youneverknow.

FWIW, P!nk also uses, as heard on VH1's Behind The Music,

"I _told_ her _said_ 'You were my inspiration!'"

et sim.

My wife isn't familiar with either of these. Of course, she's from
*North*east PA. That may explain it.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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